''Live from Austin, Texas'' is a live album released by rock musician David Byrne, released on

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on October 2, 2007 on CD and DVD. The songs were recorded during Byrne's 2001 tour in support of '' Look into the Eyeball'' at a date for the

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television show ''

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.'' Except for the first 4 songs the quartet was accompanied by the Austin-based

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string sextet Tosca. The album not only includes songs from his solo work, but also several

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songs and a

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cover, " I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."

Track listing

''All tracks written by David Byrne except as indicated.'' #"

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" (David Byrne,

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) – 4:50 #"God's Child (Come Dance with Me)" – 4:35 #"

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" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 3:39 #" Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 7:14 #"The Great Intoxication" – 4:10 #"Marching Through the Wilderness" (Byrne, John Pacheco) – 4:19 #"The Revolution" – 2:24 #"

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" – 5:50 #"What a Day That Was" – 6:51 #"Desconocido soy" – 2:56 #" Like Humans Do" – 4:15 #" Life During Wartime" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 6:30 #" I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam) – 5:07

Personnel

*David Byrne – Vocals and

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Paul Frazier –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

and vocals *

Mauro Refosco Mauro Refosco is a Brazilian percussionist. He is best known for working with singer David Byrne and as the former touring and session percussionist for the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is a member of the experimental supergrou ...

–

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, percussion programming, and

mallets A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head. The term is descriptive of the overall size and propor ...

David Hilliard David Hilliard (born May 15, 1942) is a former member of the Black Panther Party, having served as Chief of Staff. He became a visiting instructor at the University of New Mexico in 2006. He also is the founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton foundatio ...

– drums *String sextet Tosca (tracks 5–13) **Leigh Mahoney –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

**Lara Hicks – violin **Jamie Desautels – violin **Stephanie Ames Asbell –

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and

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

**Ben Westney – cello **Sara Nelson – cello

Release history

External links

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